JOHANNA SHORES MOVIES
NOVEMBER 2019
Saturday, 11/2, 1:30 Part 1 & 6:30 p.m. Part 2: Schinder’s List 1993 R 3h 13m Liam Neeson stars as Oskar Schindler, a greedy German factory owner made rich by exploiting cheap Jewish labor. But as World War II unfolds, he becomes an unlikely humanitarian, spending his entire fortune to help save 1,100 Jews from Auschwitz. Also starring Ben Kingsley.
Monday, 11/4, 3:00 p.m.: Apollo 11 20019 G 1h 33m Crafted from newly discovered footage, and more than 11,000 hours of audio recordings, Apollo 11 takes us straight to the heart of NASA's most celebrated mission—the one that first put men on the moon, and forever made Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin into household names.
Wednesday, 11/6, 6:30 p.m.: Rio Bravo 1959 NR 2h 21m Sheriff John Wayne has a problem: He must keep killer Claude Akins from escaping the town lockup (with outside help from his brother and a cadre of hired guns). The only people Wayne can call on for support are an alcoholic Dean Martin, a well-meaning Angie Dickinson, a crippled Walter Brennan and an eager Ricky Nelson.
Saturday, 11/9, 1:30 & 6:30 p.m.: A Streetcar Named Desire 21951 PG 2h 5m After losing the family plantation to creditors, aging Southern belle Blanche DuBois (Vivien Leigh) travels to New Orleans seeking solace in her sister, Stella (Kim Hunter). Instead, she goes toe-to-toe with Stella's brute of a husband, Stanley (Marlon Brando). Leigh, Hunter and Karl Malden all took home Oscars for their work in this sizzling adaptation of Tennessee Williams's classic rumination on carnal attraction and faded gentility.
Monday, 11/11, 3:00 p.m.: The African Queen 1951 NR 1h 45m In 1960s Charlie Allnut (Humphrey Bogart), the booze-guzzling, rough-hewn captain of a broken-down East African riverboat, teams with a straitlaced, iron-willed missionary (Katharine Hepburn) to take on a menacing German gunboat during World War I.
Wednesday, 11/13, 6:30 p.m.: Ninotchka 1939 NR 1h 50m In her penultimate screen role, Greta Garbo earned her fourth and final Oscar nomination for portraying Communist dream Ninotchka: a stern-faced apparatchik who does things entirely by the book -- the Soviet book. She's sent to Paris to arrange the sale of Grand Duchess Swana's jewels for her government, but while taking in the appalling materialism of Paris, Ninotchka meets the Swana estate's Count Leon (Melvyn Douglas), who melts her icy heart. Saturday, 11/16, 1:30 & 6:30 p.m.: Breakthrough 2019 PG 1h 56m In this fact-based drama, 14-year-old John Smith falls through a frozen lake and is pronounced dead after 27 minutes of CPR fail to revive him. But his mother is having none of it and prays loudly at John's bedside -- until his heart begins beating. Starring Chrissy Metz and Josh Lucas.
Monday, 11/18, 3:00 p.m.: Duck Soup 1933 NR 1h 8m Thanks to the patronage of well-heeled widow Mrs. Teasdale, Rufus T. Firefly becomes dictator of the tiny country of Freedonia. But when the ambassador of the bordering nation of Sylvania declares his love for Mrs. Teasdale, Firefly declares war. Starring the Marx Brothers.
Wednesday, 11/20, 6:30 p.m.: Vertigo1958 PG 2h 9m One of Alfred Hitchcock's darkest and most compelling suspense films tells the story of police detective Scottie Ferguson (James Stewart), who has a crippling fear of heights -- and an all-consuming obsession with a married woman. When an old friend asks him to tail his wife (Kim Novak), Scottie is drawn into a vortex of deceit and murder. But that's only the beginning as a mesmerizing score draws Scottie to the film's haunting final shot.
Saturday, 11/23, 1:30 & 6:30 p.m.: Forrest Gump 1994 R 2h 22m Forrest Gump, a simpleminded man, finds himself in the middle of nearly every major event of the 1960s and '70s. Along the way, he makes friends, changes lives and yearns for his childhood sweetheart, Jenny. Starring Tom Hanks and Robin Wright.
Monday, 11/25, 3:00 p.m.: Poms 2019 PG-13 1h 31m In this uplifting comedy, life in a retirement community is anything but retiring for a group of young-at-heart senior ladies who decide to pull out the pom-poms and form a cheerleading squad. Starring Diane Keaton & Jacki Weaver.
Wednesday, 11/27, 6:30 p.m.: Treasures of the Snow 1983 NR 1h 47m High in the Swiss Alps a little boy, Danny, disappears. Lucien, a lonely frightened boy of 13 is overtaken by catastrophic events and finds himself an outcast with his family and friends. Impelled to escapte, the fugitive boy finds peace high up in the forest where he meets an old woodcarver who encourages him so that he begins to have hope. But when rejection comes again, he discovers the hard way that a price has to be paid for forgiveness before there can be any reconciliation.
Saturday, 11/30, 1:30 & 6:30 p.m.: The Mountain Between Us 2017 PG-13 1h 52m Kate Winslet and Idris Elba star in this suspenseful drama based on Charles Martin's novel. When a plane they've chartered to beat a storm crashes in a remote mountain area, two strangers must trust each other in order to survive the extreme elements. With little hope of rescue, they begin a perilous journey that will shape the course of their lives.
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